FAQ: updated 1.10 How many are using curl?
Now linking to http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/05/16/300m-users/
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We don't know how many users that downloaded or installed curl and then
never use it.
- Some facts to use as input to the math:
+ In May 2012 Daniel did a counting game and came up with a number that may
+ be completely wrong or somewhat accurate. 300 million!
- curl packages are downloaded from the curl.haxx.se and mirrors over a
- million times per year. curl is installed by default with most Linux
- distributions. curl is installed by default with Mac OS X. curl and libcurl
- as used by numerous applications that include libcurl binaries in their
- distribution packages (like Adobe Acrobat Reader and Google Earth).
-
- More than a hundred known named companies use curl in commercial
- environments and products and more than a hundred known named open source
- projects depend on (lib)curl.
-
- In a poll on the curl web site mid-2005, more than 50% of the 300+ answers
- estimated a user base of one million users or more.
-
- In March 2005, the "Linux Counter project" estimated a total Linux user base
- of some 29 millions, while Netcraft detected some 4 million "active" Linux
- based web servers. A guess is that a fair amount of these Linux
- installations have curl installed.
-
- The Debian project maintains statistics on packages installed by people
- who have voluntarily run their package counting application. In mid-2010,
- libcurl3 was installed on over 55000 such systems (62% of reporting systems)
- and was one of the 320 most popular installed packages (out of about 107000
- possible packages).
-
- All this taken together, there is no doubt that there are millions of
- (lib)curl users.
-
- http://curl.haxx.se/docs/companies.html
- http://curl.haxx.se/docs/programs.html
- http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/using/apps.html
- http://counter.li.org/estimates.php
- http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/03/14/fedora_makes_rapid_progress.html
- http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=curl
+ See http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/05/16/300m-users/
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